Why Us

IPO Issuers and Underwriters covet retail investors who won’t flip, or immediately sell, their IPO shares. Investors that buy and hold shares have a positive impact on price performance, making the IPO more likely to succeed. Attracting buy and hold investors motivates Issuers and Underwriters to allocate IPO shares through our platform.

Arch Investment ICAV is paid a commission from the Underwriter for allocating offering shares. Investors like you do not pay any fees.

Arch Investment ICAV reflects your order in an offering to the underwriter. The underwriter could allocate 100% of what we are asking for or they might not allocate any shares to Arch Investment ICAV. When an offering is oversubscribed, allocations tend to be much smaller. You could be filled on your entire order, part of your order, or you might not receive any shares at all.

All you pay for is the share price of the IPO. There is a commission built into the share price, but it is paid by the issuer (the company going public), not you, so you do not pay any additional commission.

Not all offerings are available to order. Please keep in mind that allocations are never guaranteed. If we expect to receive an allocation from the Underwriter in an offering we will make it available to order via our IPO Specialists, sometimes we may expect an allocation a couple of weeks in advance and sometimes we may expect an allocation only a day before an offering goes effective (especially in popular/oversubscribed offerings). Sometimes we may receive large allocations, sometimes small allocations, or no allocation at all.

You could be allocated the entire dollar amount of your order, part of your order, or none of your order. Your allocation depends on how much interest/demand there is in a specific offering, and how much of the offering is allocated to Arch Investment ICAV